MEGADESIGN and MegaOpt - German Initiatives for Aerodynamic Simulation and Optimization in Aircraft Design Results of the closing symposium of the MEGADESIGN and MegaOpt projects, Braunschweig, Germany, May 23 and 24, 2007 - Kroll, Norbert; Schwamborn, Dieter; Becker, Klaus; Rieger, Herbert; Thiele, Frank; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009)
Reduction of Simulation Time -- Recent Developments of TAU Adaptation Capability -- Adaptive Wall Function for the Prediction of Turbulent Flows -- Acceleration of CFD Processes for Transport Aircraft -- Efficient Combat Aircraft Simulations with the TAU RANS Code -- Improvement of Simulation Quality -- Universal Wall Functions for Aerodynamic Flows: Turbulence Model Consistent Design, Potential and Limitations -- Computational Modelling of Transonic Aerodynamic Flows Using Near-Wall, Reynolds Stress Transport Models -- Transition Prediction for Three-Dimensional Configurations -- Application of Transition Prediction -- Numerical Simulation Quality Assessment for Transport Aircraft -- Fluid Structure Coupling -- Computational Methods for Aero-Structural Analysis and Optimisation of Aircrafts Based on Reduced-Order Structural Models -- Development and Application of TAU-ANSYS Coupling Procedure -- Fluid-Structure Coupling: Simplified Structural Model on Complex Configurations -- Improvement of Shape Optimization Strategies -- Development of an Automated Artificial Neural Network for Numerical Optimization -- modeFRONTIER©, a Framework for the Optimization of Military Aircraft Configurations -- One-Shot Methods for Aerodynamic Shape Optimization -- Automatic Differentiation of FLOWer and MUGRIDO -- Adjoint Methods for Coupled CFD-CSM Optimization -- Aerodynamic and Multidisciplinary Optimization of 3D-Configurations -- Aerodynamic Optimization for Cruise and High-Lift Configurations -- Aerodynamic Optimization of an UCAV Configuration -- Flexible Wing Optimisation Based on Shapes and Structures -- Multidisciplinary Optimization of an UAV Combining CFD and CSM.
Keywords: Aerospace engineering; Astronautics; Continuum physics; Algebra; Fluid mechanics; Applied mathematics; Engineering mathematics; Engineering design; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Classical and Continuum Physics; Algebra; Engineering Fluid Dynamics; Mathematical and Computational Engineering; Engineering Design